Natalie Kitroff

Mullen is taking the reins of DHS, which oversees immigration enforcement, at a critical moment.

Thousands of employees are working without pay during a partial government shutdown that began more than a month ago after Democrats held up funding for the agency over their demands to rein in immigration officers.

The shutdown has led to long security lines and scenes of chaos at airports across the country.

Finally, the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether an air traffic controller was distracted by a separate incident at the time of a deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night.

The collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck killed two pilots, injured dozens of people, and temporarily shut down LaGuardia, one of the busiest airports in the nation.

Today's episode was produced by Ricky Nowetzki, Stella Tan, and Claire Tennesketter.

It was edited by Lisa Chow and contains music by Diane Wong, Marion Lozano, and Alisha Baitouk.

Our theme music is by Wonderly.

This episode was engineered by Chris Wood.

That's it for The Daily.

I'm Natalie Kitroleth.

See you tomorrow.

From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Kitroff.

This is The Daily.

On Monday, we looked at the growing pushback against sprawling AI data centers in communities across America.

Today, my colleague Kevin Roos takes us inside one of the most transformative technologies that infrastructure is enabling.

A new way of programming that may be the biggest development in artificial intelligence since the launch of ChatGPT.

It's Wednesday, February 18th.

Okay, so the other day I slacked you, Kevin Roos, my colleague, my friend, the host of the New York Times tech podcast, Hard Fork.

And I asked you, what is vibe coding?